Succotash Shut-In

Succotash Chats, Epi116F: Gearin' Up With Greg Proops

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

Yes, it's still Marc Hershon and I'm
still at the 4th Annual Los Angeles Podcast Festival. Taking up
space in the SquareSpace Podcast Lab and interviewing comedians,
podcasters, and comedian-podcasters as they breeze through the
doorway.

I'm releasing each interview as its own
"minisode", and this is the sixth in the lineup, which is why it is
Episode 116F. And my guest this time around was our guest
on a full episode of Succotash back in Epi109 in May:
Greg Proops. At this festival, he's guesting on
Jackie Kashian'sThe Dork Forest,
performing his own show, and guesting on Dinner Party
Download.

Known for his tenure on the various
incarnations of Whose Line Is It Anyway on TV, Greg is the
host of The Smartest Man
In The World and the Greg Proops Film Club.
He's also recently released his first book, The Smartest Book
In The World. And now he's on a jagged world journey —
hopping, skipping, and jumping to different countries around the
world to promote the book, mostly by doing his podcast in the same
locales as well.

Greg and I revisit some of the topics we hit
on back in May when he was on the show: The challenges of doing
improv as a guest performer, keeping an act fresh, staying sane on
the road, and more.

I'm posting this on Sunday, the last day of
the @LAPodfest. I'm not sure who else might sweep through the
portals of the Lab, but I'll grab who I can and bring those
Succotash Chats to you.